Atomu, Aliens and Active Consumers: Possibilities and Limitations of Manga, Anime and their Fandom (Cinema 2)
Gan Sheuo Hui – Atomu for Peace? A Critical look at Tetsuwan Atomu as an icon of nuclear power in Japan
Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua – Fantastic Aliens: Japanese Post-War Narratives and Representation of the Other
Kam Thiam Huat – Active Consumers and Capital: Participatory Consumption of Manga, Anime and Games

Saturday, 1st December

9:00 – 11:00 Panels:

Revolution, Before and After (K 401)
YAU Shuk-ting, Kinnia – Social and Political Implications of Japanese Science Fictions in the 21st Century
Sayumi Takahashi Harb – Performing Modal Hyper-realism: Animating Mishima as Shoujo
Paul Berry – The Metaphorical Gijika Worlds of Yuasa Masaaki’s Animation

Affixing Apocalypse to History (Room TBA)
Denis Taillandier – Coping With Disaster Through Technology: “Goodbye me!” – Itô Keikaku’s Harmony and the Future ‘Wa’
Eija Niskanen – Summer Wars and Canceling the Apocalyptic Future
Sebastian Klausner – Enter the Wasteland: (Post-)Apocalyptic worlds as a metaphor for the youth of the Lost Decade in Anime and Japanese films
Nakagawa Shigemi – The Repetition and Recurrence of Disaster: 3/11 (The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Fukushima Nuclear Disater) in the Work of Tawada Yôko

11:15 – 12:45 Keynote Otsuka Eiji (K 411)

14:00 – 16:00 Panels:

Bending Timelines and History (K 410)
Sakaguchi Shu – On the Irreversible Time of Adolescence: Through the Structure of Excluded Middle in The Girl who Leapt Through Time”
Jordan Marshak – “It Happens to a lot of Girls About Your Age”: Time Travel and Japanese Identities in The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Yoshimi Tomofumi – The youth be linked by the Law of the Circular Ring : A Consideration of « loop stories » in Japan’s subculture
Kendall Heitzman – The Endless War in The World Five Minutes from Now (1994)

Bipolar? US-Japan, Japan-Korea (K 411)
Ryan Robert Mitchell – A Father is Being Beaten: Rebirthing New Worlds and Bodies in Shuji Terayama’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Yusung Kim – An Encounter with a New Father: Japanese Animations under the U.S. Occupation
Seongcheol Yun – Bootleg Manga as the cultural exchange – Joint ownership of the expression in Japan Manga-Korea Manhwa
Nathaniel Heneghan – Hybridizing Zainichi Identity Through Cinema

Oscillations of Everydayness, Impending Disaster and Disaster Politics (K 401)
Julien Bouvard – The World as a Game, Revolutionaries as Players. New political discourses in 2000’s Manga
Adrienne Hurley – END:CIV: Yokowashi-Yonaoshi
Amanda Landa – Images and Politics of Freeters and NEETs: Discourses of Youth and Disaster
Kimura Saeko – Anti-nuclear movement and Japanese film